I don't think it's possible to write a review for Metamorphosis without revealing spoilers. The final scenes in the film after all are surely the ones that give it any cult value at all. So let me just cut to the chase. The point when the central character turns into a dinosaur is the moment where this movie differentiates itself from all others. It's completely stupid and very memorable. And then immediately after this, the prologue has the hero metamorphosed into a small lizard in a child's box. I'm sure Franz Kafka never envisaged any of this.
The film is also notable for being written and directed by George Eastman, who is famous to most fans of Italian genre cinema as an actor who usually plays convincingly psychotic sociopaths in films such as Rabid Dogs. This flick clearly isn't in the same league as that one, and it is an indicator of the reduction in quality of Italian films in general by 1990. The fact that it's most memorable moments are of unintended (?) hilarity perhaps says it all. Although in fairness to Metamorphosis, its good fun and at least it actually has something memorable about it, which is more than can be said for many similar pictures.
The film is also notable for being written and directed by George Eastman, who is famous to most fans of Italian genre cinema as an actor who usually plays convincingly psychotic sociopaths in films such as Rabid Dogs. This flick clearly isn't in the same league as that one, and it is an indicator of the reduction in quality of Italian films in general by 1990. The fact that it's most memorable moments are of unintended (?) hilarity perhaps says it all. Although in fairness to Metamorphosis, its good fun and at least it actually has something memorable about it, which is more than can be said for many similar pictures.